Farther Along: A Civil Rights Memoir A Civil Rights Memoir
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Mai 1999
Verlag
Louisiana St UnivSeitenzahl
286
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/16/3.2 cm
Gewicht
640 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8071-2352-2
After four years in Richmond, Caplan moved to Washington to take a job as a reporter, eventually covering Capitol Hill. In 1963 he was tapped to direct the D.C. office of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, where he remained until 1981 lobbying for the basic civil rights laws of our time. Caplan also became a founder and the first president of Neighbors, Inc., a Washington group devoted to combating housing discrimination and creating genuinely integrated communities.
In his memoir, Caplan doesn't paint himself a hero for his actions. "Picketing, for me, " he admits, "was a painful obligation." He describes qualms about risking his job to protest alongside Mary Church Terrell for the desegregation of Washington's public eating establishments, about sending his children to a school 90 percent black, and, in the early cold war years, about associating with integrationists of communist bent. Still, a sense of purpose so self-evidently right energized Caplan and others at thegrassroots level, and he renders with compelling eloquence the endless hours of picketing, protesting, stuffing and mailing, organizing, and arguing -- as well as the less public moments of quietly living one's convictions.
Through Caplan's first-person perspective, Washington d
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